Issue 665: Limit the run of unit test to a specific application

Reported by William Martin, Apr 22, 2011

Hi,

I think, it's will be nice to add an option to run unit test on a 
single app.

For my example, i am working an a specific application which parse 
binary data. I am writing lot of unit test, to test all error i can 
foud it the file :
- endian encoding
- filesize
- error in the binary stream
- error in n-th sub header
- error in string encoding
- error in IEEE float format
- ....

Right now, i think my parser is very robust, and unit test take 2 
minutes in my dev PC. I have some other parsers to write, and 
unit-test will be as longer as i first one.

In two month, a run of unit test on all my apps will be take 30 
minutes.

So it will be nice to add an "--app" option to focus unit 
test on it, for this run. I will be nice during dev of this app.

William

Comment 1 by William Martin, Apr 22, 2011

Also about phpunit,

It's can be nice to add an option to use a custom XML configuration 
file.

William

Comment 2 by Thomas Keller, Apr 26, 2011

phpunit offers a --filter option - maybe this can be 
"forwarded" from the "selftest" (?) run target 
photon provides?

Comment 3 by William Martin, Apr 26, 2011

I think those options are for "runtests".
Actually the XML configuration file is generated on the fly.

Comment 4 by William Martin, Apr 26, 2011

I submit an patch to add those features.
Actually, i use it and i prefer merge that in the main trunk.

The patch add two options to the runtests command :
* --app : to run the test only on this app
* --configuration : It's by-pass the photon generation of the 
phpunit file, and use the file passed in argument.

runtest-args.patch - 9.45 kB - view

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Issue 665: Limit the run of unit test to a specific application